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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Guerilla Letters KYR-0002-225-0027 Document Box 1, Folder G. L. 1863

Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. Franz Sigel (U.S. Army general and teacher) N00008498 1824-11-18 1902-08-21 Categories: People

St. Louis, Missouri, teacher and soldier. Native of Sinsheim, Baden, Germany. Son of Moritz Sigel and Anna Marie Pauline Lichtenauer Sigel. Married to Elise Dulon in January 1854. Father of Robert Sigel, Paul Sigel, Rudolph Sigel, and Lelia Sigel. Graduated from Karlsruhe Academy in Baden-Württemberg, Germany in 1843. Attended law school at Heidelberg University. Soldier in Army of Grand Duke of Baden from 1843 to 1848. Commander of Freikorps battalion of German revolutionaries from 1848 to 1849. Appointed minister of war in provisional government of Liberals in 1849. Language tutor and fencing instructor in New York from 1852 to 1853. Opened a cigar store in New York in 1853. Commissioned a major in the 5th New York Militia in 1854. Professor at the German-American Institute, or Feldner School, in New York from 1855 to 1857, and the Deutsches Institut in St. Louis from 1857 to 1861. Member of the Turner Society in New York and St. Louis. Co-founder of monthly journal the Interpreter. Served in the 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from May 4, 1861, to May 16, 1861. Served in the U.S. Volunteers as brigadier general from May 17, 1861, to March 21, 1862, and as major general from March 21, 1862, to May 4, 1865.

Relationships Military: Thomas J. Ewing (captain in 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and colonel in Kentucky Enrolled Militia)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis, 3rd Ward, p.137 Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, Westchester County, Morrisania, p. 275A Stephen D. Engle, Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993) iv-vi, 2, 6-7, 34, 37-8, 42-3, 293. Francis Bernard Heitman,Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1 (Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1903), 28, 30, 886. Robert Huston Milroy (Indiana attorney and U.S. Army general) N00008499 1816-06-11 1890-03-29 Categories: People

Carroll County, Indiana, attorney and soldier. Washington County, Indiana, native. Married to Mary Jane Armitage Milroy in Carroll County, Indiana, on May 17, 1849. Graduated from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, in 1843. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Graduated from the law department of Indiana University in 1850. Member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention 1849-50. Appointed judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit Court of Indiana in 1851. Captain in First Indiana Volunteers from June 20, 1846, to June 16 1847. Served in 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry as captain from April 23, 1861, to August 27, 1861 and colonel from August 27, 1861 to September 3, 1861. Promoted to brigadier general on September 3, 1861. Promoted to major general on November 29, 1862. Served as commander of the 2nd Division of the 8th Army Corps in 1863. Resigned his commission on July 26, 1865.

Relationships Military: Thomas J. Ewing (captain in 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and colonel in Kentucky Enrolled Militia)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Carroll County, District 9, p. 259A and 259B Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Carroll County, Deer Creek Township, p. 470A. Indiana Marriages, 1810-2001, Carroll County, Volume 2, 1847-1855, (accessed via Ancestry.com on April 13, 2018), p. 64 of microfilm. Indiana Adjutant General's Office Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 1 (Indianapolis: A.H. Connor, State Printer, 1869), p. 38, 179. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 4, (New York: Appleton, 1888), 334. Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland: Twenty-First Reunion, 1890 Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1891), 268. Francis Bernard Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1 (Washington: Govt. rint. Off., 1903), 714. Robert Cumming Schenck (U.S. Army general, attorney, politician, and diplomat) N00008500 1809-10-04 1890-03-23 Categories: People

Dayton, Ohio, attorney, politician, diplomat, and soldier. Franklin, Ohio, native. Son of William Cortenus Schenck. Married Rennelke Smith Schenck at Missequoque, Long Island, New York, on August 21, 1834. Father of Elizabeth R. Schenck, Julia C. Schenck, and Sallie S. Schenck. Graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1827. Read law with Thomas Corwin. Professor at Miami University from 1827 to 1829. Admitted to the Ohio bar in January 1833. Member of Ohio House of Representatives from 1839 to 1843. Successful Whig candidate to the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1851. Attorney in Dayton, Ohio, in 1850. U.S. envoy and minister to Brazil from March 12, 1851, to October 8, 1853. Attorney in Dayton, Ohio, in 1860. Served as brigadier general of Volunteers (U.S.A.) from May 17, 1861, to August 30, 1862. Major general from August 30, 1862, to December 5, 1863. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1863, to January 5, 1871.

Relationships Military: Thomas J. Ewing (captain in 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and colonel in Kentucky Enrolled Militia)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Montgomery County, Dayton, 2nd Ward, p. 156A Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Montgomery County, Dayton, 2nd Ward, p. 236 Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Montgomery County, Dayton, 3rd Ward, p. 170A. Fred B. Joyner, “Robert Cumming Schenck, First Citizen and Statesman of The Miami Valley,” _Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 58 (July 1949): 286-8. “Ill But Five Days: Gen. Robert C. Schenck Dies of Pneumonia—His Career as Congressman, Soldier, and Diplomat was a Remarkable One,” Belmont Chronicle (St. Clairsville, Ohio), March 27, 1890. Andrew, R. Dodge, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005, Inclusive (Washington, DC: US Gov. Print. Off., 2005), 1871. “Robert Cumming Schenck,” U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/schenck-robert-cumming. Accessed April 4, 2018. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1 (Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1903), 864. Thomas J. Ewing (captain in 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and colonel in Kentucky Enrolled Militia) N00008501 1842-03-10 1927-02-27 Categories: People

Boyd County, Kentucky, soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Ewing. Married Sarah A. Ferguson Ewing in February 1863 in Boyd County. Resident of Greenup County in 1850. Served in the 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a captain from September 21, 1861 to January 3, 1863. Served in 22nd Kentucky Enrolled Militia as colonel from May 26, 1864 to June 28, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, 199B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Catlettsburg, p. 101B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Boyd County Marriages, Film #000344011, p. 326. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 888. Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Publication T289, Roll 600 (Accessed via Fold3.com). Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017517, Boyd County Deaths, File #2818. Catlettsburg, Kentucky P00001173 Categories: Places

Seat of Boyd County, Kentucky. Located on the confluence of the Ohio River and Big Sandy River.

38.4048, -82.6004 "Catlettsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 8, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. James C. Powers, "Catlettsburg," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 170. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) O00008509 1861-10-18 1864-10-20 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Ceredo, Virginia. Mustered into service on October 18, 1861. Mustered out of service on October 20, 1864. Commander(s): John L. Zeigler and Abia A. Tomlinson.

Relationships Military: Thomas J. Ewing (captain in 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and colonel in Kentucky Enrolled Militia) Military: James Douglas McBride (Richland County, Ohio, farmer and soldier)

Adjutant General, State of West Virginia, Annual Report for the Year Ended December 31, 1864 (Wheeling, WV: John F. M'Dermot, Public Printer, 1865), 16, 134-5. United States Adjutant General’s Office, _ Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65_, vol. 4, (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1127. Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky 1863-05-01 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Catlettsburg Ky May 1st 1863 His Excellency J. F. Robinson Governor of Ky Sir

I have a proposition to make to your honor in regard to the raising of troops for Ky service. My plan is this. As there is a probability of the conscription act being carried into effect in Ky and before I would allow myself to be drafted I would volunteer and such is the case of a large number of my fellow citizens. I want to see the mane of Kentucky come out at the end of the war without the name of one of her citizens being enrolled as a drafted man. I wish to raise a Battallion of not less than 500 men which shall be independent of all branches of the service for the purpose of ridding the North eastern portion of our state

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of the Guerrillas and Thieves which infest it. There are a great number of men in this and adjoinging counties who would be willing to enter the service for such a purpose who would not be willing to enter the regular army. The Battallion to be mounted and to serve Twelve months. I refer you to reccommendations in my favor now in your possession from Generals Siegel Milroy & Schenck concerning my ability. I shall be pleased to receive an answer at your earliest convenience.

I remain your most obedient servant T. J. Ewing Ex Capt Co. G. 5" Regt Va Vol Infantry

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T. J. Ewing Capt. 5th Va I.

Cattlettsburgh Ky
May 1"/63
Recruiting for Ky. service.